(Larry Hurtado): It’s well enough known that in the Graeco-Roman period there was a readiness by many to link or cross-identify deities. So, e.g., Zeus and Jupiter were linked in […]
Helen’s comments on the reality behind the term ‘sanhedrin’ can be extended to a lot of early Christian terms as well. Early Christian historiography is dogged by the tendency of later […]
(by Helen Bond). Reading through a few student essays recently (not from Edinburgh, I’d like to point out!), I was surprised by how many simply assume the presence of a […]
(Larry Hurtado): In the unceasing flow of publications on early Christianity, important works often get overlooked or too quickly slip from sight. So, here’s a reminder/pointer to a book that […]
(Helen Bond) I’m busily getting all my papers in order today for the meeting of the SNTS in Berlin next week. (Technically it stands for Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, but […]
[Sara Parvis writes] A few thoughts on the interface between New Testament studies and Patristics. All of us in CSCO are (perhaps more by accident than by design, perhaps not) […]
(Helen Bond) Larry’s post showed that one of the things we are interested in at the Centre for Christian Origins (CSCO) is what’s often called the ‘world of the NT’ […]
(Larry Hurtado): As the founding director of CSCO I’ll offer my take on what “Christian Origins” means (at least here), for those who may be wondering what the expression signifies, […]
(Helen Bond) Welcome to our new CSCO website! As the previous posting notes, we’re all going to take it in turns to introduce ourselves and our research over the next […]